Moreau 5

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Hatred:

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Hardison hated her. He absolutely hated her. She had no right to do that to him, to them. She just decided she was sick of waking up to Nate every day and then she decided it was alright if she didn’t have to see any of them anymore. She not only left the mastermind, broke him beyond all repair. She left them all, and broke them all beyond repair.

He understood he would lose Parker. He knew it the very moment Eliot told them what was wrong with Nate and Sophie. Parker wouldn’t believe the grifter was capable of such a horrendous thing. She’d pretty much forgotten all about that one time Sophie betrayed them. In her mind the grifter could do no wrong. Proof positive every time they tried to talk.

Parker kept suggesting that they go find their grifter and bring her back. The girl wanted answers, answers the rest of them couldn’t give. She ran away the first time they all told her no. The second time she told all of them off and then went to join Nate in a drinking spree. That was when they broke up. Hardison couldn’t stand the idea of becoming anything like the woman who left. He wouldn’t allow himself to be that way.

He hated Nate too. Somewhere in the back of his mind he knew it was unfair. The mastermind had a history of being bad at relationships. He didn’t have any friends outside of the team, unless you counted Hurley and Paul. Maggie always told them he wasn’t the most pleasant person to live with. He had a temper that even Eliot could envy. He was an obnoxious alcoholic who was even more of a jerk when he was sober.

But it was Nate’s fault she left. He promised to protect her, to marry her, to satisfy her every need. He somehow missed the mark though. He had to have because she left him for somebody else. She fell in love with somebody else, the man she was doing instead of Nate. And what did the mastermind do to bring her back?

Nothing. The man did absolutely nothing like he was supposed to. He just let her go all because she said she was in love with the other guy. Sophie was a professional liar. How could he be so certain she was telling the truth? Maybe she just didn’t want to be married anymore. Maybe she didn’t even want to be married to begin with. Maybe that was her way out. Have an affair with some stranger and wait until her husband found out and then say it was because she was in love with the other man; that made sense. Plus she could totally get away with that excuse too.

He hated Eliot too. It was the hitter’s job to protect them. He was supposed to tell them when bad stuff was going to happen. He was supposed to follow her and demand to know what she was thinking. He wasn’t supposed to pretend everything was fine and act like nothing happened. He didn’t even volunteer his useful skills for Parker’s mission.

The hacker slammed his fists against the table, effectively spilling his orange soda all over his laptop, the table and the floor.

“Great,” he growled, “just great.”

He probably shouldn’t have thrown the contents of the table after that. He just couldn’t really help his own temper anymore. Everything he wanted, everything he needed; were gone. He lost Parker because of that evil woman. Nate was drowning himself in a bottle, ready to disappear from them forever. Eliot buried himself in the restaurant but the food was seriously starting to taste horrendous. He couldn’t even stand looking at himself in the mirror anymore.

Well there it was. The truth finally came out after all of those weeks of waiting. He should have known. Of course he hated himself most of all. He trusted her to be there for them all.